BSc in Full Stack Development
Course Overview
The BSc in Full Stack Development at the London School of Commerce and Technology (LSCT) is a three-year undergraduate degree for students who want to ship complete web applications, not just isolated features. Sitting in the Information Technology department, the programme treats the modern web stack — React, Node, relational and document databases, REST and GraphQL APIs, CI pipelines and cloud deployment — as one continuous discipline.
You will work in two-week sprints from the first month, building progressively larger applications and pair-programming on real bug fixes against an internally maintained open-source codebase. By final year you will run a small team shipping to a live multi-tenant LSCT-hosted product. Online, on-campus and distance routes are available from 2026.
Industry Context for the BSc in Full Stack Development
The BSc in Full Stack Development is calibrated against how UK product teams actually hire in 2026. Engineering managers at City fintechs, scale-ups near Old Street and the Government Digital Service all describe the same gap — graduates who can write a feature but cannot reason about state, latency, security or accessibility across the whole stack. The degree is sequenced to close that gap module by module, with every assignment graded against a written reviewer rubric that mirrors a real pull-request template. WCAG 2.2, OWASP Top 10 and UK Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations are treated as non-negotiable baselines rather than late-stage add-ons.
Key Features
- UK-accredited BSc honours degree with content reviewed against BCS software-engineering knowledge areas.
- Three study modes with synchronous standups and shared issue trackers across cohorts.
- Placement year option with a London product company near the Old Street tech cluster.
- Production code-review module — your year-two PR goes through real peer review.
- Accessibility-first front-end strand covering WCAG 2.2 against UK Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations.
- Capstone product launched to a public audience and defended in viva.
What You Will Learn on the BSc in Full Stack Development
The degree organises the full stack into four working strands: client, server, data and delivery. You will graduate able to design a small API, build the front-end that talks to it, query a database without bringing it to its knees, and deploy the whole stack behind a reverse proxy with sensible monitoring.
- JavaScript and TypeScript foundations
- React, component architecture and accessibility
- Node.js, Express and REST API design
- GraphQL and modern data layers
- Relational databases, indexes and query tuning
- NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) and caching patterns
- Authentication, authorisation and OAuth flows
- Testing — unit, integration, end-to-end
- Containerisation, CI/CD and cloud deployment
Year one builds the JavaScript, TypeScript and HTTP fundamentals every full-stack engineer needs before the framework conversation begins. Year two pairs students into product teams that ship features against a real backlog, with code-review feedback graded in line with how senior engineers write PR comments in industry. Year three opens with the optional placement and closes with the capstone product — a fully deployed application carrying tests, observability and an architecture decision log — defended in viva before working engineers and a placement-host technical reviewer.
Who This Course Is For
- A-level leavers targeting a career as a software engineer in UK tech.
- International students seeking a UK BSc with a strong hands-on portfolio.
- Bootcamp graduates wanting an honours degree to consolidate their skills.
- Career switchers from non-technical backgrounds with prior self-study.
Career Pathways
Graduates work across UK product companies, scale-ups, consultancies and public-sector digital teams, with consistent demand from City fintechs and the King's Cross tech corridor. Typical destinations include:
- Full-Stack Developer
- Front-End Engineer (React, accessibility focus)
- Back-End Engineer (Node, API-first)
- Mobile Developer (React Native)
- Junior Solutions Architect
- QA Engineer with development specialism
The degree articulates into an MSc in Software Engineering or a Higher Diploma in Software Engineering top-up where applicable.
Entry Requirements
- Three A-levels at grades BBC or above, or an equivalent UK / international qualification (IB 28+, BTEC DMM, Foundation Year pass).
- GCSE English Language at grade 5/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or equivalent).
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- A personal statement; mature applicants (21+) may apply with a GitHub portfolio and a short coding interview.
Why Study at LSCT
The London School of Commerce and Technology (LSCT) is a specialist higher-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. We teach in small cohorts so every student is visible to their tutor, run a single intake schedule that students can rely on, and partner with UK professional bodies so qualifications carry weight with employers. London puts Whitehall, the City, Silicon Roundabout, the Royal Courts of Justice, the West End and the NHS estate within a short tube ride of every classroom — and our students use that proximity in their projects, placements and graduate job hunts. Full-stack students get pull-request reviews from working engineers at companies a tube stop away.
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